The collection spans Mr. Laird's distinguished career, especially from 1961 onward. Prominent topics include the 1964 Republican Party platform; the 1964,1968, and 1972 presidential campaigns; Congressional Republicans in the 1960s; the Vietnam War; a wide range of Defense Department procurement, planning, and policy issues, both regional and global; many domestic policies; Nixon White House efforts to avoid impeachment; and Mr. Laird's post-government activities. The collection incorporates files held for many years by Laird assistant William J. Baroody, Jr.
Material on advice given to the President, White House staff, and First Family on legal matters, domestic and foreign issues, presidential powers, and personnel matters. Prominent topics include legislation, White House liaison with agencies and departments of the federal government, presidential appointments, including the Supreme Court nomination of Justice John Paul Stevens, executive-legislative relations, and White House administration. The collection contains much material created or received by Dudley Chapman, Barry Roth, Bobbie Greene Kilberg, Roderick Hills, William…
Material related to Leach's work on White House liaison with Departments of Treasury, Commerce, and Agriculture concerning such issues as economic development, tax reform, regulatory reform (primarily in the transportation industries) and on small business programs, especially aid for minority businesses, handling disaster assistance loans, and assisting applicants for small business loans.
Materials focusing on Lehmann’s service as Deputy U.S. Ambassador in Saigon and the closing months of the Vietnam War, especially the final evacuation from Saigon in April 1975. Included are two oral history transcripts, some declassified State Department cables, documents written or collected by Lehmann concerning these events, Saigon newspapers and maps, and photographs.
The bulk of this collection is comprised of routine personal correspondence between President Ford (or Mildred Leonard on his behalf) and his family, friends, colleagues, and former constituents. Many of these letters are congratulatory in nature, but some also express opinions of the Nixon pardon and other events and policies and “get well soon” wishes for Mrs. Ford.
A collection of notes and letters from Gerald R. Ford, personal correspondence, invitations, greeting cards, clippings, photographs, a rolodex, and a scrapbook.
Scrapbooks containing clippings and occasional photographs and bound volumes containing speeches and testimony. The materials concern Levi's work as Attorney General and legal issues such as busing, gun control, crime, electronic surveillance, and affirmative action.
The collection documents Lindh's and Holm's liaison with women's groups and their advocacy within the White House on issues of special interest to women. It includes material accumulated by presidential Counsellor Anne Armstrong and Office of Women's Programs Director Karen Keesling.
The collection consists of material associated with Lindh’s participation in Republican politics, and with her service during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Included are newspaper clippings, routine correspondence, copies of her speeches, documentation relevant to the speeches, and other background material.
The files consist of materials produced or accumulated by Lissy, his predecessor Roger Semerad, and Lissy's staff assistant William Diefenderfer. The collection concerns their work on issues in the areas of education, labor, veterans affairs, and civil service. It also documents Lissy's major role in White House liaison with Jewish Americans.
The collection documents White House contacts with members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1974-77, regarding legislation, personnel appointments, and routine requests and courtesies. Significant materials appear on most major energy issues which were the subject of considerable congressional debate. A few defense and foreign policy issues, including the intelligence investigations, the Sinai agreement, military aid for Turkey and the end of American involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia are also documented here.
This collection contains extensive material related to the Office of Management and Budget's activities associated with the formulation of the President's budget, the national economy in general, especially inflation, and Federal housing programs.